To back up littletimmy's point, I very much as a male have been the subject of it. I was persistently and relentlessly trolled for well over a year in some of t

To back up littletimmy's point, I very much as a male have been the subject of it. I was persistently and relentlessly trolled for well over a year in some of the online communities I frequented when I was younger, and it has had an effect on me. I would dare say a somewhat positive one, in that it fueled a certain level of misanthropy and cynicism that influenced me to educate myself on the human condition and thus read on subjects that would nominally be considered outside my age group. I have thankfully mellowed out quite a bit since then, and none of this excuses the original actions, but it's not all grim. And, conversely, the Internet is not all rosy. The fact of the matter is we've opened up a real Pandora's box. This is the first time in human history we've enabled people to really be bombarded by public opinion in instant, rapid numbers at every moment they express a viewpoint. It's the first time the marketplace of ideas is out there in its true colors. Humans simply aren't used to this. It's perfectly normal that a lot will break down at the immense cognitive overload. However, one thing annoys me. The idea that this is purely a women's issue, and how it's presented as a culture war over gender and feminism. In fact, this is a very recent development, and it seems to me that the zeitgeist on the subject changes cyclically. It used to be trolling, and it was acknowledged it happened to everyone. Don't feed the trolls, don't share public info on the Internet. But then, as social media totally subverted that, it became "cyberbullying". And though it was still acknowledged it occurred to all, it became a matter of imminent policy decision. Now, it has gone further off the edge. It's no longer trolling or cyberbullying, it's harassment and it has suddenly been morphed into an identity politics issue. What tripe. I expect that soon this will change, of course. Some other neologism or term with a corresponding narrative will usurp the current gender feminist understanding. That's how it appears to work, observing prior historical precedent. The way I see it, there's two real options: a) Humans must adapt to this new circumstance and learn to be more resilient in the face of a new reality, one where they are under constant global supervision for their words, or b) We must lower our dependence on the Internet and have decent analog/low-tech fallbacks to how our societal institutions operate instead of marching in full digital for everything. The latter, quite clearly will not happen. This leaves us with a). Regulatory decisions will not work. The regulatory bodies do not understand the problem. I don't think any of us do. We have to learn to deal with the revolution we have started, as there's no reversing it.